Minsk conducted export and import operations with 188 countries in 2016, the National Statistics Committee reported. Last year the Belarusian capital exported $8.1 billion worth of products, or 34.6% of the country’s aggregate exports. Minsk companies exported tractors and tractive units, trucks, chemical products, refrigerators and freezers, timber, component parts for trucks and tractors, buses,…
Another batch of mutton has been shipped to Iran, the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture reported. The work, done by Kazakhstan’s agricultural ministry together with the Iranian side, resulted in the harmonization of the veterinary requirements for supplying live sheep and chilled mutton from Kazakhstan to Iran. In addition, the requirements for…
DTEK Energo has increased investments in the development and upgrade of its thermal power plants and mines. Over eight months of 2017, the company invested UAH 3.6 billion in its enterprises, up by 80% YoY. Investments in DTEK Pavlogradvuhillia and DTEK Dobropilliavuhillia made UAH 2.9 billion in the past eight months, up by 80%. This…
Ukraine’s GDP growth this year is projected at 1.8%, while by 2020 this figure could reach 4%, President Petro Poroshenko stated in the Verkhovna Rada in his annual address on the internal and external situation of the country. “According to the results of this year, GDP growth is projected at 1.8%. We expect economic growth…
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has met with the President of Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu. During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the prospects of cooperation as part of Turkmenistan’s national civil aviation development program for 2012-2030, being implemented in the country. Under this program, new air harbors…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia on September 7, the consumer price index in August increased by 0.4% compared to July and by 3.9% compared to August 2016. Compared to August of last year, goods were 3.8% and services 4.1% more expensive. Regulated prices of goods and services also rose by 7.2% and non-regulated…
The railway electrification project in development by LDz is potentially lethal for Latvia’s national economy, says former head of Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau’s Operative Investigations Office Juris Jurass, adding that it may be one of the biggest crimes currently being planned in the country. Jurass asked Aivars Lembergs if talks similar to those that…